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Digital Services Act: adapting commercial and civil law rules for commercial entities operating online

2020/2019(INL)·9th term·CULT / IMCO / JURI·INL - Legislative initiative procedure·CompletedProcedure completed
Subjects: Free movement of services, freedom to provide · Information and communication technologies, digital technologies · Electronics, electrotechnical industries, ICT, robotics · Business policy, e-commerce, after-sales service, commercial distribution
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): WÖLKEN Tiemo (S&D)
Summary

This legislative-initiative report on a Digital Services Act addresses commercial and civil law rules for entities operating online. Amendments reference the e-commerce Directive, GDPR, consumer protection cooperation and the COVID-19 outbreak, and propose notice-and-action procedures, transparency reports, professional diligence and liability for platforms, designating EU legal representatives for third-country advertisers and intermediaries, sanctions for false or misleading advertisements, and limits on mandatory automated content filtering.

Procedure timeline

  1. Committee amendments tabled
    29 Apr 2020 – 5 Jun 2020
  2. Plenary vote — Passed
    20 Oct 2020 · On the resolution (the text as a whole)
  3. Procedure completed
615
Amendments
distinct, in window
76
Members
tabled at least one
3
Committee(s)
29 Apr 2020 – 5 Jun 2020
Dates

Plenary votes

10 roll-call votes

In plenary, Parliament usually votes in steps: first on amendments to the text (sometimes split into parts, so Members can accept one half of a sentence and reject the other), then on the text as a whole. The “main vote” is the one that adopts or rejects the text itself. Each vote below shows exactly which step it was. How voting works →

  1. Show the 7 earlier votes
    1. 20 Oct 2020Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 2
      Official label: Am 2 · what was voted ↗
      148 for532 against15 abstentions8 did not vote
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    2. 20 Oct 2020Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 3
      Official label: Am 3 · what was voted ↗
      101 for579 against15 abstentions8 did not vote
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    3. 20 Oct 2020Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 4
      Official label: Am 4 · what was voted ↗
      153 for527 against15 abstentions8 did not vote
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    4. 20 Oct 2020Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 1
      Official label: Am 1 · what was voted ↗
      106 for550 against39 abstentions8 did not vote
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    5. 20 Oct 2020Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 8 (part 1 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 8/1 · what was voted ↗
      617 for41 against37 abstentions8 did not vote
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    6. 20 Oct 2020Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 8 (part 2 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 8/2 · what was voted ↗
      630 for24 against41 abstentions8 did not vote
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    7. 20 Oct 2020Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 8 (part 3 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 8/3 · what was voted ↗
      547 for133 against15 abstentions8 did not vote
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  2. 20 Oct 2020Passedoutcome from totals
    On paragraph 17 (part 1 of a split vote)
    Official label: § 17/1 · what was voted ↗
    671 for7 against17 abstentions8 did not vote
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  3. 20 Oct 2020Passedoutcome from totals
    On paragraph 17 (part 2 of a split vote)
    Official label: § 17/2 · what was voted ↗
    341 for303 against51 abstentions8 did not vote
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  4. 20 Oct 2020Main votePassedoutcome from totals
    On the resolution (the text as a whole)
    Official label: Résolution · what was voted ↗
    637 for26 against28 abstentions12 did not vote
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Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only

Official amendment documents

PE642.466 ↗PE650.540 ↗PE650.618 ↗PE652.517 ↗

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Members who amended this procedure

76 Members · by amendment count
1🇨🇿
Jiří POSPÍŠIL
European People's Party (EPP) · Czechia
133(32 solo)
2🇭🇺
József SZÁJER
European People's Party (EPP) · Hungary
104
3🇩🇰
Karen MELCHIOR
Renew Europe · Denmark
73(8 solo)
4🇳🇱
Liesje SCHREINEMACHER
Renew Europe · Netherlands
65
5🇪🇸
Esteban GONZÁLEZ PONS
European People's Party (EPP) · Spain
65(4 solo)
6🇪🇸
Adrián VÁZQUEZ LÁZARA
European People's Party (EPP) · Spain
63
7🇩🇪
Patrick BREYER
Greens / EFA · Germany
51(51 solo)
8🇧🇬
Angel DZHAMBAZKI
European Conservatives & Reformists · Bulgaria
38(38 solo)
9🇫🇷
Emmanuel MAUREL
The Left (GUE/NGL) · France
36(6 solo)
10🇪🇸
Javier ZARZALEJOS
European People's Party (EPP) · Spain
32
11🇷🇴
Daniel BUDA
European People's Party (EPP) · Romania
30(30 solo)
12🇫🇷
Manon AUBRY
The Left (GUE/NGL) · France
30
13🇪🇸
Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO
Socialists & Democrats · Spain
27(23 solo)
14🇩🇪
Marion WALSMANN
European People's Party (EPP) · Germany
26(17 solo)
15🇩🇪
Gunnar BECK
Identity & Democracy · Germany
24(11 solo)
16🇫🇷
Stéphane SÉJOURNÉ
Renew Europe · France
21(16 solo)
17🇩🇪
Tiemo WÖLKEN
Socialists & Democrats · Germany
17(17 solo)
18🇨🇿
Marcel KOLAJA
Greens / EFA · Czechia
14(14 solo)
19🇫🇷
Gilles LEBRETON
Identity & Democracy · France
13
20🇲🇹
Alex AGIUS SALIBA
Socialists & Democrats · Malta
12(4 solo)
21🇸🇰
Eugen JURZYCA
European Conservatives & Reformists · Slovakia
11(11 solo)
22🇭🇺
Edina TÓTH
Non-attached · Hungary
10
23🇭🇷
Tomislav SOKOL
European People's Party (EPP) · Croatia
10
24🇸🇮
Romana TOMC
European People's Party (EPP) · Slovenia
10
25🇵🇹
Maria da Graça CARVALHO
European People's Party (EPP) · Portugal
10

The amendments, in full text

615 amendments

Every amendment as tabled — original text, proposed change and justification, with a link to the official PDF.

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